Newton's clock : chaos in the solar system /
Describes the development of celestial mechanics through the ages from ancient star charts to modern mathematics and computer simulations.
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New York :
W.H. Freeman and Co.,
©1993.
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Table of Contents:
- Chaos in the clockwork
- Time pieces
- Wanderers of the sky
- Seas of thought
- Clockwork planets
- Inconstant moon
- Prophet of chaos
- Band gaps
- Hyperion tumbles
- Digital orrery
- Celestial disharmonies
- Machinery of wonder.